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Ayahuasca. >> what are you hoping happens over the course of the next 12 days? >> im hoping to go to resolve that kind of lingering, undefinable dark cloud that follows me around and not have it there anymore, so its not subverting my life. so im hoping ayahuasca will help me go inward and have it heal me. >> were off to peru where were going to meet stan. hes someone who has just had this tortured soul for the last 30 years, and hes hoping that this substance thats illegal here in the u.s. is g...

In a peaceful town in pennsylvanias heartland, a successful internet entrepreneur is raising his family. this is 40-year-old stan. >> higher? >> from the outside, hes got it all. two adorable daughters and a beautiful wife named birgit. you might think stan has the perfect life. but youd be wrong. hes been haunted by a traumatic event over three decades old. >> when i was 6 years old, you know, i ended up getting molested by a stranger outside the house. that changed things for me. >> how do you...

Anti-depressants. thats the real danger. >> tens of thousands of people use ayahuasca worldwide today. and the ranks of the newly converted now appears to include stan, whos just done a daytime dose of rons mighty brew. >> how are you doing? >> just out here in the jungle, wrestling with my demons. >> its probably about as good a place as any to wrestle with them. and a good place to leave them. >> mm-hmm. >> want a little smoke blown on you? >> sure. >> a journey of change. a modern pilgrimage....

>> i always thought i could have fought him off and done better. but then i cant picture fighting off this bigger person. it definitely put a cloud over things, and i distinctly remember after, maybe like a week or two after, i remember saying, like, im different. like im scared of the world. there was a violent element to it, so it really overloaded my nervous system. and i remember saying why does everything look kind of not so colorful like it used to? >> in the years following this traumatic...

And hes seeking it from this man. ron wheelock. aka the gringo shaman. hes a former mechanic and pot dealer from kansas who spent two decades in peru cooking up psychedelic teas in his role as shaman, or traditional healer. i meet up with stan and ron at el pugero as the gringo shaman breaks down the plant mix used in his ayahuasca brew, acclaimed as the most powerful in the region. >> these are the leaves of the huambisa, the chalipanga that contain five emdnt. this is chacruna. this contains m...

People from seattle to suburban new york city who were accused of being part of a russian spy ring. people who seemed to be ordinary americans living ordinary lives but were actually part of a long-term, very long-term kgb plan to plant russian spies and ferret out information and decree re krut morecruit more spies. noah thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> you are the fbi agent -- i have to say, first of all, i love this show. i hope people go out there and watch us ...

Its something thats played very well with indonesia. december.spite the attempts by the australian prime minister all of that has failed. as one legal representative told me the trip to the island sadly, is a one-way journey. >> stan thank you, reporting live there from sydney with the latest. absolutely heart wrenching to hear that. >> some very disturbing details. >> well take a short break. when we come back new details about the man known as jihadi john including what led the british schoo...

Afghanistan and back stan. bill, thank you for being on the real story today. what is the real story about these documents? >> thanks, gretchen. yes, and the real story about these documents in my opinion is they refute the dam obama administrations narrative that al qaeda is on the run and has been defeated, and that its core leadership is based on afghanistan and pakistan. the time frame of the latest documents that are released are from 2010 up into early 2011, just before bin laden was kille...

>> mom! ♪ last year i asked for robots, stan gave me an army zblie that was your father. >> fourth graders singing about santa, its funny for someone like that to be hating santa. ♪ youre never too old to sit on santa ♪ >> onlookers arent sure who to trust. take this woman, for instance. >> she went up and said, what is this? they were commiserating on why this guy was singing. then ten seconds lauren starts singing. ♪ youre never too old to sit on santa ♪ >> the same woman maybe a min...

Some of those what i call the stan countries. kazakhstan. >> there was free travel by the tsarnaev brothers, back and forth. >> that is something that raises a lot of other -- >> after the boston marathon bombing the administration through intermediaries was trying to pin it on white tea party activists. they are trying to tie the boston marathon bombing to patriots day and it is like, that is hesitation. so sad. >> i get angry. where am i going to take that anger? that is just ridiculous. >> if...